not to delay a single minute and to deliver in deed so that everything that was required of you reaches its destination. There will be no excuse in case of delay.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

Published January 20, 1929 in the newspaper

written in the hand of E. M. Sklyansky

and signed by V. I. Lenin

Written May 29, 1919

First printed January 20, 1929

in *Krasnaya Zvezda* No. 17

Printed according to the text,